Improvement in wash-boilers



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JOHN H. SIEBCKE, 0F ANN ARBUR, MIGHIGAIN.

Letters Patent No. 113,582, dated April 11, 1871*.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BOILERS.

The Schedule refer-:edito in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To whom it may concern:

that the following is a true and accurate descriptionI thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked there` on and being a part of this specification, in whichand Figure 2 is a cross-section of the same.

Like letters indicate like parts in each figure.

This invention has for its object the construction ofa device to be placed in the ordinary lwash-boiler containing water, soap, andthe clothes to be cleansed," and by thev application of heat the hot snds will be caused to permeate and circulate through the fabrics, removing the dirt, which will be deposited as sedimentV in the bottom of 'the boiler and It consists in the novel and peculiar construction ot the device for that purpose, operating as more fully hereinafter set forth;

.T n the drawing- A represents a long narrow chamber, surrounded at its lower edge by a daring oval fiange, B, conforming in shape to and ittingeasilyin the ordinary washboiler, resting upon the dange of its pit-bottom. y

In the top of the chamber A a concave cover, C, is inserted and secured thereto at intervals, as at a, in such a manner as to leave a narrow opening between the edges ofthe cover and top of the chamber.

In each side wall of the chamber-is a narrow diagonal slot, which may be parallel to that-in the opposite wall, or inclined in the opposite direction.

From the slot projects a spout, I), having a narrow orifice, as shown.

The area of the openings at the top of the chamber and ends ofthe spouts should be less than that Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improvement,

of' the chamber, to insure the discharge of the'water forced up the chamber through all the openings slmultaneonsly'.

The operation 'of the device is as ibllows:

Place in the bottom ot' the boiler a small quantity of bar soap,sliced thin. Then place the attachment in the boiler and add water to the depth of an inch or two over the ange B. Then `lay in the fabrics to be cleansed, spread out, nearly to the top of the chamber A.

If h eatlbe now applied to the boiler' the water containedtherein under the ange B will expand, filling the chamber A, and be forced out at the top and side openings upon and through the fabrics, `permeating them to the bottom, and returning to the pit-bottom at and around' the edges of the ange B, the sudscarrying thedirt extracted in their passage through the fabrics, and whichl is deposited as" sediment in the --bottom ofthe boiler. The circulation is kept up in the manner described,

and rapidly completes the cleansing `prcess, being continued as long as the cover of the boiler is kept on and closed. p 4

After the fabrics are removed from the boiler they should -.be rinsed in clean water, to remove any' adhei-ing sediment, wrung, and hung up to dry.

lo bleach them in washing a table-spoonful of powdered borax may be placed in the boiler, which bleaches them without injury.

What I claim as my invention, and. desire tc secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction and arrangement of the verticalV chamber A, provided with the cover C and diagonal spouts D, as described, irl-connection with the iiauge 15,'as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN E. SIEBGKE.

Witnesses:

H. F. EBnRTs, M. STEWART. 

